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Miles Parks is a reporter on NPR's Washington Desk. He covers voting and elections, and also reports on breaking news.

This past June, an article by a Reuters journalist caught my attention. Tom Lasseter’s article was entitled “The Slaves Built That.” Lasseter, along with his Reuters colleagues, began exploring the

I made a poor excuse for a Presbyterian even as a kid. I resented religious indoctrination every precious school-free Sunday. Yet despite my apostatic nature, any number of biblical tenets with broad secular application have become touchstones. Of particular value during our post-Floydian festival of flagellation is Ezekiel 18: ‘The son shall not bear the

NPR's Miles Parks talks to Reuters editor Tom Lasseter about a project highlighting how many people in power in the U.S. today have ancestors who enslaved people.

A journalist who wrote an expose about politicians' ancestors who owned slaves had ancestors who owned slaves.

By Tom Lasseter, Lawrence Delevingne, Makini Brice, Donna Bryson and Tom Bergin WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As U.S. lawmakers commemorated the end of slavery by celebrating Juneteenth this month, many of them could have looked no further than their own ...

By Tom Lasseter, Lawrence Delevingne, Makini Brice, Donna Bryson and Tom Bergin WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As U.S. lawmakers commemorated the end of slave...

By Tom Lasseter, Lawrence Delevingne, Makini Brice, Donna Bryson and Tom Bergin WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As U.S. lawmakers commemorated the end of slave...

As U.S. lawmakers commemorated the end of slavery by celebrating Juneteenth this month, many of them could have looked no further than their own family histories to find a more personal connection to what’s often called America’s “original sin.” In researching the genealogies of America’s political elite, a Reuters examination found that a fifth of the nation’s congressmen, living presidents, Supreme Court justices and governors are direct descendants o...

By Tom Lasseter, Lawrence Delevingne, Makini Brice, Donna Bryson and Tom Bergin WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As U.S. lawmakers commemorated the end of slave...